Drugs Number One Killer
While approximately 10,000 per year die from the effects of illegal drugs, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered. More than two million suffer serious side effects.
According to another AMA publication, drugs related "problems" kill as many as 198,815 people, put 8.8 million in hospitals, and account for up to 28% of hospital admissions. If these figures are accurate, only cancer and heart disease kill more patients than drugs. Has the situation improved since the publication of this information?
Hardly. Null, et al, have published the most comprehensive and well-documented study I have seen of deaths associated with medical practice. In this report, their research revealed some shocking facts. The findings are summarized in the abstract:
"A definitive review and close reading of medical peer- review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than good. The number of people having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 millions. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 millions. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics.
The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 9.9 million. The total number of iatrogenic deaths is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697: the annual cancer death rate, 553,251"
A recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine stated that in the seven year period from 1998 through 2005, reported serious adverse drug events increased 2.6 fold, and fatal adverse drug events increased 2.7-fold.
The authors noted that reported serious events increased 4 times faster than the total number of outpatient prescriptions during the period. Another study concluded that the majority (86%) of the adverse drug reactions for which patients were admitted to the medical intensive care unit were preventable. Materu
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From: 'ELISA MUHINGO' via Wanabidii <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [wanabidii] MADAWA NI TIBA. NI SUMU PIA YATUMIKE KWA UANGALIFU
Materu
Thank you so much for expanding the areas of discussion on this issue. It is 100+% correct and the areas not covered are reserched on then Drugs can be no 1 killer. People are missusing drugs like what I cant know. A good Medical Practitioner will give fewer drugs. and too much advise.
People must be educated on this.
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On Mon, 2/2/15, 'frank patrick materu' via Wanabidii <wanabidii@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [wanabidii] MADAWA NI TIBA. NI SUMU PIA YATUMIKE KWA UANGALIFU
To: "wanabidii@googlegroups.com" <wanabidii@googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, February 2, 2015, 11:41 AM
Drugs
are Dangerous Whether Pushed or Prescribed
The desire to solve problems by
taking drugs is
a product of our culture. When a child is taught by loving
parents that the
appropriate response to pain or discomfort is taking a pill,
it is obvious that
such a child, when faced with the challenges of adolescence,
will seek comfort
by taking drugs.
An article
in Newsweek put this into
perspective. Adverse drug reactions, from 'properly'
prescribed drugs, are the
fourth leading cause of death. According to this article,
only heart disease, cancer,
and stroke kill more than drugs prescribed by medical
doctors.
Reactions to prescription drugs
kill more than
twice as many as HIV/AIDS or suicide. Fewer die from
accidents or diabetes than
adverse drug reactions. It is important to point out the
limitations of this
study.
It didn't include outpatients,
cases of
malpractice, or instances where the drugs were not taken as
directed.
When the number one killer in a
society is the
healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to
address its own
urgent shortcomings. It is a failed system in need of
immediate attention.
It is time
to address the real drug problem-the
cultural notion that the first solution is to seek for
relief of life's problem
is a drug. That drug culture we need to address.
Frank
From: 'ELISA
MUHINGO' via Wanabidii
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Sent: Monday, February
2, 2015 6:24 AM
Subject: [wanabidii]
MADAWA NI TIBA. NI SUMU PIA YATUMIKE KWA UANGALIFU
Kwenye simu yangu nimepokea ujumbe unasema
hivi:
''RADIO DOUTCHE VELLE YA MJINI
COLON UJERUMANI JANA ILITANGAZA DAWA ZA DICLOPA NA
DICLOPHENAC NI HATARI KWA MATUMIZI YA BINADAMU. IMEGUNDULIKA
VIDONGE HIVYO HUSABABISHA KANSA YA INI NA UBONGO, UGONJWA WA
MOYO NA KIHARUSI VIDONDA VYA TUMBO AU KIFO CHA GHAFLA.
WATUMIE sms hii UWAPENDAO ili wasitumie dawa hizi''.
Mimi nikamjibu hivi:
''Nashukuru. Madawa yote duniani ni mabaya
isipokuwa ile uliyoandikiwa na mganga maana amehakikisha
usalama wako ktk kuitumia. Anajua dawa zilizokubaliwa na
serikali na zilizokatazwa. Ni hatari kuumwa ukaenda famasi
kununua dawa. Nenda hospitali, mwambie dalili ulizonazo,
yeye aseme unaumwa ugonjwa huu, aandike dawa. Ukipata
madhara mrudie. Ukinunua famasi huwezi kupata cheti chenye
jina lako. Wanakwepa kuwajibika na madhara yatakayotokea kwa
matumizi ya dawa waliyokuuzia. Mganga anawajibika''.
Ninauleta ujumbe huu humu ili
wengi tujue/tukumbuke ukweli huu.
Hizi
Pharmacy kwa uhakika lengo lake si kuuza madawa kwa kila
aliyeamua ila ni kumuuzia mgonjwa dawa zilizoandikwa na
Daktari. Nakumbuka mwanzoni hizi tuliziita Dispensing
Pharmacies. Duka za kutolea dawa zilizoandikwa na daktari.
Nakumbuka kuna dawa ambazo ungeingia duka la dawa
usingeuziwa kabisa dawa Fulani bila maandishi ya Daktari.
Utandawazi umetusahaulisha taaluma zetu sasa madawa yanauzwa
kama karanga na nguo au soda.
Yako mambo
mengi ambayo mganga anapoandika dawa anayafikiria kabla ya
kuamua kuiandika dawa.
Kuna kiru kinaitwa
maudhi ya pembeni (Side effects: Tunakumbuka Chloroquine.
Ilikuwa inaudhi kwa mtu kuwashwa mwilini kana kwamba
unachomwa na pin. Hii tulimtahadhalisha mgonjwa au wakati
mwingine tulimpa Phenegan na kumwambia hii itakuletea
usingizi hivyo meza ukifika nyumbani.
Kuna
kitu kinaitwa Toxic Effect. Dawa ikizidi kipimo inakuwa
sumu. Wakati mwingine tunampima uzito mgonjwa au
tunaimarisha afya yake kwanza kabla ya kumpa dawa Fulani ili
isimdhuru.
Kuna kiru tunasema Contra
indication. Mama angeweza kuulizwa kama ana mimba au la ili
atumie au asitumie dawa Fulani. Mwakati mwingine tunasema
usitumie Kileo. Huo ndio ulikuwa mwanzao wa wahuni kubuni
Malta. Ina harufu ya pombe ila haina kileo.
Kuna kitu tunaita Drug Interaction. Kuna madawa
Fulani hustahili kuyatumia kama unatumia vitu Fulani sababu
ni kuwa ama dawa inaweza kuongezeka nguvu ikakuua au
ikadhoofishwa uwezo wake isikutibu. Kuna dawa ukizitumia
usitumie maziwa mpaka baada ya muda Fulani.
Mtu unapoona mganga anasema chukua cheti
ukachukue dawa Fulani ndani ya muda huo ameyapitia hayo
yote.
Hebu tujaribu kusoma karatasi ya
maelekezo inayokuwa ndani ya madawa. Zamani wakati pharmacy
zetu zina nidhamu ya kazi walilazimika kuondoa karatasi hiyo
ili mgonjwa azingatie aliyoeleza na mganga tu. Siku hizi
hawatoi. Ukisoma utakuta imeandikwa: Dose: as directed by a
Physician. Dawa hailiwi kama sukari guru au asali-utaacha
ukishiba. Hapana. Inaliwa kama mganga alivyoona inakufaa
baada ya utaratibu mrefu.
Nasisitiza kuwa ni
hatari mtu kuumwa ukaenda pharmacy na kununua dawa.
Mtembelee mganga akutibu. Wala usiende na kumwambia Docta
naumwa malaria. Wewe sema naumwa kichwa nina homa kali
natapika. Mwache yeye aseme ni Boleria Duttoni. Au Malaria,
au Neurosis nakadhalika hayo yote yanaweza kuja na vidalili
hivyo.
Elisa Muhingo
0787187507
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